On Day 4 of the ongoing 1st Test against Pakistan in Multan, England batsman Harry Brook also scored a maiden Test directed triple hundred. This record was achieved by Brook in just 310 balls, making him only the sixth Englishman to score a triple century in Test cricket. He was dismissed at 317 after reaching out their aim, however, his stunning summa cum laude stroke play enabled England to declare at 823/7 and assume a first innings lead of 267 runs over Pakistan. A ton consisting of 28 fours and three sixes instrumental in breaking the twenty year old jinx.
Brook is the current owner of the record of the highest individual Test score achieved in Multan, with a remarkable score of 317 that bettered the previous record held by former Indian batsman Virender Sehwag who scored 309 in this same fixture way back in 2004.
His recent accomplishment put him in the ranks of great men and women like, Andy Sandham, Len Hutton, Wally Hammond, Graham Gooch, and Bill Edrich who have also scored a triple century for England.
Day 3 Brook joined Joe Root in the middle with England comfortably poised at 249/3. The two however put on 454 for the fourth wicket as England posted the fourth highest innings in Test history.
Both batsmen took advantage of a benign pitch at the Multan stadium scoring freely with Brook and Root both scoring personal bests and handing England a 267 run cushion ahead of Pakistan’s first innings 556.
Brook finished with a flourish slamming a boundary off part timer Ayub en-route to the historic 300 achieved off 310 balls before he was caught off caught by Masood sweeping off the same bowler.
Brook scored 29 fours and three sixes during his 439 minutes of batting.
However, the English cricket team captain who on Wednesday surpassed Alastair Cook’s record of 12,472 Test runs fell short of a triple hundred when he was leg-before by Salman Agha after having played for a total of 10 hours during which he scored 17 boundaries.
The Root-Brook combination scored a total of 454 runs which is the best for England in the Test eclipsing the previous record of 411 run fourth wicket partnership between Peter May and Colin Cowdrey during a match against the West Indies at Birmingham in the year 1957
It is also the fourth highest partnership in the history of Test cricket.